Under Shadows
JASON LaPIER
Book Three of The Dome Trilogy
HarperVoyager
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For Jennifer
Table of Contents
There was no doubt Jax had seen more in the past year and a half than he’d seen in his whole life, but in spite of all those new experiences, it seemed there were even newer sights waiting for him throughout the galaxy. Such it was that afternoon, when inside a half-constructed domed city on the third planet out from the star Epsilon Eridani, he found himself in a venue that was both a library and a bar.
“Welcome to the Bibliohouse.” The greeter was a pink-skinned young woman with a small smile and brown hair long enough to be tied into a tail. She wore a navy-blue suit that matched the color – and gloss – of the floor tiling. “Is this your first visit?”
Jax found it hard to speak as he gawked around the space. It was large and